All change, please.
When you DIY a project, preparation is key. If someone is coming in for you, making sure the decks are clear saves valuable time.
The heat pump is coming and the old boiler and water tank are disappearing. With luck, the old gas pipe too. How do we know which is the gas feed? Well, whoever installed the old gas pipe stuck the word “gas” at 9″ spaces along its length. Thank you 🙂 .
The new fitters are stopping the gas feed, so the space for the old pipe can be reused – the air to water heat exchanger uses water fed into the hot water tank. Magic.
Now, we are not saints. So, there is some prep we need to do for the install.
Making use of these two weeks leave, we buffered two days before leaving the house for a week for sorting out the house work as there is nothing worse than coming back to a dirty house! The couple of days we tagged at the end have been used to clear out the garage in prep for the heat pump gubbins…
It’s ended up being a little bit of a “holding pattern” area. Some of it was for the dump, some for charity shops. I was frightened it would take forever, but two people, three hours, and we have it all sorted. We have a space booked at the dump – annoyingly, I didn’t know we had some plaster board left, so that cannot go on Sunday – but the rest is good to go in the electric car: it’s bad enough we’re throwing stuff away, without compounding it with taking the ICE cars…
My beloved is just taking the “good to be reused” to our local charity shop, Sue Ryder’s. If you are not based in the UK, they do a great deal for people needing pallative care, details are here. They are a local charity, founded in the 1950s by a Suffolk woman looking to help those injured during World War II, which is one of the reasons I try to help them.
We’ve also tried to tidy for the crew. At least make the area safe. We’ve got next weekend to finish off the job, but all in all, glad I did this while on leave. A change is as good as a rest.
Posted: July 5th, 2024 under 42, Driving off the grid.